Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Patent” license

Re:Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Pate... by pmontra on Sunday July 16, 2017 @12:40AM (#14780514)

Maybe they signed separate agreements with FB. Patents sharing or exceptions. Big corporations do that.

I'd like to ask their legals about why they feel OK using React, but I'm too far away. Is anybody here in touch with them?

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Re:Apache Foundation disallows use of the Facebook “BSD+Pate... by kakwa_ on Sunday July 16, 2017 @02:33AM (#14780826)

I don't think so, I work for a big corporation, and our legal department contacted Facebook to confirm the interpretation and ask if a reworking of the license was possible.

It wasn't possible, consequently my company asked that we move away from React.

However, one thing that could be interesting to see is:

* do the companies using React are using the latest version or the last version without the patent clauses?

* do they start new projects with React?

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